Poison

Poison

5.9IMDb Score
Released:1991-04-05
Duration:85 min
Director:Todd Haynes
Actors:Edith Meeks, Millie White, Buck Smith, Anne Giotta , Lydia Lafleur
Production:Bronze Eye Productions

Overview:

A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.

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